If Marin Ireland is in it, I’m watching it 🖤

Days since finishing it, and I’m still thinking about I Know a Place by Nat Cassidy. A fantastic collection of stories. My favs are Run for Your Life, Jubilee Juncture, and Come

Emailed the a new death scene to my group. Looking forward to their responses 🚴🏻‍♂️

Finished Lone Star Noir from @akashicbooks.bsky.social My Top 5: “Preacher’s Kid” by Jessica Powers “Six-Finger Jack” by Joe R. Lansdale “Montgomery Clift” by Sarah Cortez “Moral Hazard” by Jesse Sublett “Bottomed Out” by Dean James

Correct

Started writing a new horror story tonight 🚴🏻‍♂️

Finished the 2018 volume of Best American Short Stories, edited by Roxane Gay My Top 5: “Los Angeles” by Emma Cline “Unearth” by Alicia Elliott “Boys Go to Jupiter” by Danielle Evans “Control Negro” by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson “Suburbia!“ by Amy Silverberg

Revisiting

Some things are better watched in standard def 💁🏻‍♂️

“But as they grew larger it became unquestionable: these were sure-as-shit penises. And human ones, at that.” 🌭 Penis Season by Jamey Gallagher in @necessaryfiction.com

“Oh, I am not immune to princes.” 🔥 this poem in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🌹

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a mannerly monster of good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Afternoon Tea Over Innsmouth by Lena Ng in @dielaughingmag.bsky.social 🐙

I finished King Sorrow — Incredible

LOVED Project Hail Mary. Finished just in time for the movie

Learned that I have 4 Audible credits (idk how). Has anyone listened do any good audiobooks lately?

400+ words added to the WIP

Took my laptop on vacation with the goal of adding 1000+ words to the WIP while away—and I did about ~2000! They’re not great words (a lot of free writing/sprinting). So most of them probably won’t survive. But it’s material I can build on 😌

Entering the revision stage on this!

Finished it! Wild stuff. I can already see why the next one, God Emperor of Dune, is so divisive 😅

The Twilight Zone was iconic from episode 1

Been reading Children of Dune off and on since July (!!!) and I’m determined to finish it before I start anything new

Really enjoyed this!

Spoke with a postal inspector today and was reminded of how much I enjoyed Dead Mail (available on Shudder)

Excited to crack open the issue of Ghoulish Tales that just hit my mailbox, courtesy of @ghoulish.bsky.social 🖤

“The Eight-Thousanders” by Jason Sanford (in Best Horror of the Year, Volume 13) is the kind of writing I aspire to.

I’m an unabashed Shakespeare in Love guy, and Tom Stoppard’s script was one of the first screenplays I read when I started studying film. It left an indelible impression on me. We’ve lost a true titan

“Capitalism is the killer of dreams” is the realest shit

LOVED this story! “A Deed without a Name” by @jacklothian.bsky.social in Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 13

The Last House on Needless Street by @catrionaward.bsky.social is unlike anything I’ve ever read. I can’t recall the last time a novel engaged and challenged me, as a reader, to such a degree

Not an awards voter, but I love seeing all the eligibility. Bookmarking as recs ✌🏼

Lost, season 5 (controversially?)

My group liked it a lot 😭 😁

Really digging Pluribus so far! Was gagged to see a certain soap star from my childhood pop up in a small but crucial role

At 4,555 words… I now have completed first draft of my WIP, a short horror story that I started five weeks ago 🥲 👻

Tonight’s read: Exhalation #10 by @acwise.bsky.social in Best Horror of the Year: Vol. 13

Just thought of an ending 😭 It’s going to be wild 🥲

Watched Dr. Giggles on Shudder last night. It has just the right amount of silly nonsense! Loved it

My generation… millennial My cryptid…

Added ~700 words to the WIP this evening ✌🏼

I understand the mixed-negative reviews, but honestly, the more tangled the story becomes, the more I live! Besides, it’s Stephen Cognetti’s filmmaking that keeps me coming back ✌🏼

Up next: Hell House LLC: Lineage. Been looking forward to this one for a long time. Love this series

“Slashers are America’s love language.” Hell yeah, wicked story

Last night’s bedtime story was “Drive” by @brianevenson.bsky.social. A great study in pacing and tension.

Watched V/H/S/Halloween on Shudder. Enjoyed all the segments, but Fun Size brought me the most macabre joy. Obsessed with this handsome guy in particular

Hell yeah! I’m the sort of guy who’ll stay awake at night ruminating on a boneheaded remark I made 13 years ago. So, this story in @nightmare-magazine.com resonates hard with me

Awesome short fiction in @apexmag.bsky.social! It incorporates several of my interests: ghosts, ceiling fans, red dye #40, etc

Tina is truly one of the best heroines in slasher sequel history

Revisiting Halloween 5 now because you can’t just watch 4

Unsettling flash fiction (like this wicked little story in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social) is one of my favorite flavors of flash fiction

RIP Michael Myers, you would’ve loved ancestry dot com